elwestb
Well-known member
What a wonderful day to be out on the water to fish and enjoy such a viriety of Mother Nature's mean tricks. We were about half way through our registgration yesterday morning, just before daylight, when suddenly it just started raining! We wern't supposed to have any rain that I was aware of but there it was! Tim and I had already mapped out our game plan and were ready to go. We started out on a large shallow spawning flat throwing chatter baits. We saw lots of fish slurping up minnows off the surface all around us but we could not get a single one to bite? After about fifteen minutes of that Tim picks up a shakey head and fires it out a couple of times and catches our fiest keeper. I kept throwing that chatter bait. Tim misses a fish on the shakey head but then catches a short fish on the next cast. I put down the chatter bait and grabbed up a shakey head also. On my third cast I get our second keeper. I think Tim caught our third fish shortly after that. By now the wind was beating us to death and we were trying to fish any where that we could get out of some of that the wind. We went to the banks and we just kept fishing, picking up a fish here and there occasionally all on the shakey heads. Tim did throw a small swim bait for a short while but he never had a bite. I finally caught our largest fish which was a 4.27 lber. and I believe it was our third cull. Then it started sleeting and then it started snowing! This is April and not supposed to happen at all! The wind would calm for a few minutes then it would suddenly hit again and almost blow you out of the boat! Then the sun came out. The weather was crazy! We caught well over twenty fish all on the shakey heads. Most of the fish were 15-16 keepers. We culled seven times by ounces. We caught very few short fish but we could not get that kicker bite. We fished clean although i did break off a fish on a gorilla type hook set. My fault! All our fish were shallow. I would say 3-8 feet deep. We caught fish on that stump flat and then off of rocky, gravel banks. It helped if there was any wood there also. We had three keepers that weighed 10.46 lbs. I think and were lucky enough to get the win with our little bag. I hope to see you all on April 30th for CFF no. 4 at CFP!
